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occur (verb), occurs; occurred; occurring
1. To happen or to take place: The auto accident occurred at the corner of Greenway Road and 56th Street.
2. To exist or to appear naturally: Large deposits of silver occur in Bolivia, South America, and they have helped to shape the economic development of that nation.
3. To come to one's mind or to be thought of: While watching the late TV movie, it suddenly occurred to Jim that he had forgotten to finish his homework.
This entry is located in the following unit: curr-, cur-, cor-, cour- (page 3)
(Latin: to inhabit; to live in, to live on, to live among; to dwell; living among, dwelling in; occurring on, occurring in)
(Greek: again; occurring in some rhetorical terms)
(Latin: a prefix occurring in words of Latin origin used in the senses: out, out of, from; upward; completely, entirely; to remove from, deprive of; without; former [said of previous holders of office or dignity])
(Greek: a combining form occurring in the names of chemical compounds in which the methyl group is present; alcohol, wine)
(Greek: bunch of grapes, uvula [that which resembles a grape hanging from a stock]; staphylococci, grape-shaped bacteria occurring in irregular clusters)